Thursday, March 10, 2005

Learning Object Abuse! In Use and Abuse of Reusable Learning Objects, Pithamber R Polasni notes: 2.1.1 Form Form is the framework in which a digital object is embedded, and it is the form that sets a media asset on the path to becoming a LO. Take as an example a digital image of Picasso's famous painting Guernica executed during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The image displayed on a viewer's computer screen or on a museum wall can evoke a multitude of emotions and reactions: horror, awe, surprise, intrigue, rejection. These effects are based on the sensibility of the viewers. It is through sensibility that we intuit objects, in this case Guernica. If the same image is presented in an art history course, however, the object acquires a different status and becomes a LO because the art history course as form - the setting, context and environment for viewing the image - changes Guernica from an object of intuition into an object of understanding. The participants of this course are expected, in addition to simply intuiting the object, to understand it, i.e. to turn Guernica into an object of thought. In this way, form not only changes a digital resource into a LO but also transforms viewers into learners. Journal of Digital Information, Volume 3 Issue 4 Article No. 164, 2003-02-19 So could a learning object include the digital artwork that it is about? Would that artwork be considered art? a learning object? 7:03:49 AM